Tag: career
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Lyrical Wordplay
Have you ever heard a lyricist provide the perfect combination of words, style, and cadence? Set to the right backdrop, the mood can captivate and we find ourselves in a communal sway. This agreement between performer and audience members can be likened to the power of words and how they are socialized. Within a work,…
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Lessons from #Chopped
What Foodnetwork TV has taught me about Corrective Feedback, Using my words, and the importance of being a Supervisor and Supervisee. Chopped surprised me. I thought it would be about food. This show has given lessons in feedback (giving and receiving) and, how at any moment, everyone should be ready to learn and level up.…
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Being the Same Will Not Do
Why Pruning Matters… My favorite flowers are Tulips. But I especially love Peonies and Hydrangeas. Fortunately, #TraderJoes keeps a nice stock of fresh flowers and I travel there almost weekly. Though I love flowers, I am a *clears throat * low activity individual when it comes for the care that fresh flowers require. On my…
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The Shiny New Toy
…and why behavior science practice requires more I recently took my daughter out on a coveted target trip…while an errand for me, it was a big deal for her. She was searching for a new doll. And being a toy aficionado, I know that the best dolls, may not be found at Target. But this…
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If You’re Private Pay, Rethink your Pricing Structure…NOW.
I see many colleagues in speech or even learning specialists discuss being private pay and the woes in finding clients. They also discuss the ease in documentation. While, I am in a group who thinks that documentation standards should be adhered to no matter private pay or third party reimbursement, I do believe that pricing…
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Why Coaching Matters in Leadership
Lessons from Life’s Last Dance from my coach, Robert H. Seals It’s no secret that most of the coaching I have ever found to be beneficial for my sustenance as a clinical leader has been outside the world of therapy. I have had my mother who spent year’s as a Chicago Public School teacher, I…
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#Relationship Goals
How Comparison Gets a Clinical Leader In Trouble and the Impact on Company Culture It’s all over Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. Pictures of the wonderful lives of people; companies; and families. And comments follow with the hashtag of #relationship goals. And then maybe statements of admiration follow that include “you are so amazing”. And I always…
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What’s the Magic Pill in Reaching People.
Why Being WHO YOU ARE is important in reaching clients and colleagues or Why Parents and Mentees need YOU not your list of certifications – podcast episode 2 There is no magic pill. It is simply called being you. The real you. This being me is the reason why wearing a white SLP jacket is…
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FOCUS
Let your life get you IN FOCUS. Align YOU and REALIGN your business. Sometimes I just get tired. Not so much physically…but head filled with thoughts and things to do kind of tired. Sometimes I just want to answer a question saying “I’m tired. I have two beautiful children: infant and toddler. I own more…
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WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Creating Your Identity and Building Your Therapy Practice You are starting out as a new therapy practice and business owner. What should you name your practice? This is an often asked question on many facebook sites by current and new business owners in the field of therapy (speech therapy clinics and more). Shakespeare said it…
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